Members of the City Council formally adopted a resolution Tuesday that will eventually lead to the city annexing a 10-foot wide stretch of road along Kay Road, just off San Pablo Avenue near the Richmond Parkway. The land in question is currently designated as a part of unincorporated Contra Costa County, but according to City Engineer Edric Kwan, was always supposed to belong to Richmond.

Currently, the boundary dividing the City of Richmond and unincorporated Contra Costa runs right down the middle of Kay Road. By annexing the 10-foot stretch to the north of the current line, Richmond will own the entire street, instead of half of it.

“You’d think the entire street would belong to the city, not just one half,” Kwan said. “We were always under the premise it belonged to the city, but I guess through some error decades ago, when it should have been annexed, it wasn’t.”

Read the rest of the story by Ian A. Stewart, and about other issues discussed at Tuesday’s Richmond City Council meeting, at Richmond Confidential.